Turkey -Weak Link of Imperialism
R.Yürükoğlu
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In an article entitled “The Race to Save Turkey”, the American periodical Institutional Investor asks, “Will Turkey turn back from the threshold?” The West German Wirtschaftskurier talks of “Turkey breaking with the West”. In Britain, the Financial Times devotes one of its longest supplements to Turkey and remarks, “A very deep and real crisis is at hand in relations between Turkey and the West”. From this it goes on to comment on the possibility of Turkey breaking with the West. “The Nine” are discussing Turkey. Turkey is one of the main questions of the day in NATO. The “Position on Turkey” is a subject for Labour-Tory disputes in the British Parliament. The largest banks and finance centres in the world “review” Turkey. Save Turkey from “what”? From which “threshold” might it turn back? To what does the “West” refer? What is meant by “breaking with the West”? What is all this about “Turkey”? Has it been recently discovered? The obvious answer to all these questions is this: Turkey is a weak link in the chain of imperialism! The imperialists are aware of this, and are alarmed by it. To “save” Turkey means to prevent ... |